Sharing your fruit is always a wonderful plan. Kudos to you for planning to do just that. :)

Enjoy your many tomatoes.

Dave

PS: "loo" tells me you are in Great Britain right?

Dear Bigpinks, Wow, that's an impressive variety!

Does anyone have any advice for someone doing tomatoes from seed for the very first time? I started brandywines indoors in three types of containers: tiny ceramic pots, a plastic seedling tray, and those little biodegradable seed starter pots. The ones in the ceramic pots are doing the best. They are about two inches tall now. When do you normally transplant to the garden? Do you do them in pots, or straight in the ground? I have room in the ground and I have room in containers.

I too like a large number of tomato types, something always does better than another type. A mix of heirloom and hybrids, big and cherry toms. Transplanting into the garden is staggered over three weeks or more.

Christinela:

Did you read the FAQs for this forum? They will answer a lot of questions.

I have two types of Brandywine this year, Bot. Int. and Ferry-Morse (spelling). This year my containers are paper and plastic 1/2 gallon milk/OJ containers, 20 oz soda bottles (cut in half, drill tiny hole in cap, put top half upside down in bottom half), and others.

The time of transplanting into the garden is a variable. Your Zone gives you a good general idea. If I have one or two plants of a particular type, caution leads to later planting whereas five or ten plants leads me to plant some early and hope for the best.